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Declare Your Independence from Tyranny, America

Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 8 months ago to Philosophy
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"Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials.

Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you on the off chance you’re doing something illegal.

Keep in mind that if you have a firearm of any kind (or anything that resembled a firearm) while in this country, it may get you arrested and, in some circumstances, shot by police.

If you’re thinking this sounds like America today, you wouldn’t be far wrong.

However, the scenario described above took place more than 200 years ago, when American colonists suffered under Great Britain’s version of an early police state. It was only when the colonists finally got fed up with being silenced, censored, searched, frisked, threatened, and arrested that they finally revolted against the tyrant’s fetters.

No document better states their grievances than the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

A document seething with outrage over a government which had betrayed its citizens, the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, by 56 men who laid everything on the line, pledged it all—“our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”—because they believed in a radical idea: that all people are created to be free.

Labeled traitors, these men were charged with treason, a crime punishable by death. For some, their acts of rebellion would cost them their homes and their fortunes. For others, it would be the ultimate price—their lives.

Yet even knowing the heavy price they might have to pay, these men dared to speak up when silence could not be tolerated. Even after they had won their independence from Great Britain, these new Americans worked to ensure that the rights they had risked their lives to secure would remain secure for future generations.

The result: our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Imagine the shock and outrage these 56 men would feel were they to discover that 246 years later, the government they had risked their lives to create has been transformed into a militaristic police state in which exercising one’s freedoms—at a minimum, merely questioning a government agent—is often viewed as a flagrant act of defiance.

In fact, had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested, held indefinitely, stripped of their rights and labeled enemy combatants.

Read the Declaration of Independence again, and ask yourself if the list of complaints tallied by Jefferson don’t bear a startling resemblance to the abuses “we the people” are suffering at the hands of the American police state."
SOURCE URL: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/declare_your_independence_from_tyranny_america


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  • Posted by Dobrien 1 year, 8 months ago
    The FIRST step to tyranny is compliance.

    These tyrants would like nothing more that to have armed citizens attack any Govt institution. That would likely doom the 2nd amendment. Evil is on the losing side, recent battles by them have all been a disaster. More to come.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 8 months ago
    Oh my dear, congratulations. Well written! I copied this for my friends who aren't on this website. i've alerted them to it, but they are slow to react. They will love this Post.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 1 year, 8 months ago
    I agree wholeheartedly. I was out demonstrating for this at the BLM demonstrations last year.
    I think people see the Constitution as something from history that doesn't apply to the modern world.
    The Framers were concerned about a Bill of Rights possibly being construed as saying the federal gov't has powers not precluded by the Bill of Rights. Maybe that's come true. I'm not sure. I think ewv was right that there is no substitute for the average citizen having a philosophy of personal liberty.
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    • Posted by Dobrien 1 year, 8 months ago
      Please explain what BLM stands for and why would you be demonstrating last year? Also to correct you .I think liberal leftist BLM LGBFJB Democrats
      See the constitution as an impediment to their totalitarian Marxist authority.
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      • Posted by $ 25n56il4 1 year, 8 months ago
        Both my great grandfathers served the Confederacy during the Civil War. In the family Bible there is no mention of Slavery being an issue. Both of them served from Texas because they'd sold their plantations in the 1830's. My maternal great was a physician. Interesting families.
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        • Posted by VetteGuy 1 year, 8 months ago
          My dad was heavily into genealogy. In his research he discovered two of our ancestors had been at the convention to decide whether Alabama should secede. One, a slave owner, voted NOT to secede. The other, a non-slave owner, voted TO secede. The issues were a lot more complicated than most would lead you to believe.
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